From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 21 12:12:15 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7571316A400 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:12:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from mx1.netclusive.de (mx1.netclusive.de [89.110.132.131]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B48713C44B for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:12:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (p3EE21B7F.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [62.226.27.127]) by mx1.netclusive.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 801F4DE80DA for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:12:13 +0100 (CET) Received: by nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (Postfix, from userid 8) id 9550F15213; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:12:12 +0100 (CET) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Path: not-for-mail From: Christian Baer Newsgroups: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:12:12 +0100 (CET) Organization: Convenimus Projekt Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <499c70c0701210012x565debedve015e2d18b95ee1b@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: garfield.rz1.convenimus.net X-Trace: nermal.rz1.convenimus.net 1169381532 54703 192.168.100.11 (21 Jan 2007 12:12:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@convenimus.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:12:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) Subject: Re: Turion64 x2 vs Centrino Duo 2 which is faster for FreeBSD and KDE Desktop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:12:15 -0000 On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:12:25 +0300 Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: [broken up Xpost] > I plan to buy a new notebook and will use FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, I have > 2 choices, Turion64 x2 with 2.0 GHz and Centrino Duo 2 with 2.0 GHz, > but with 2 GB DDR2 ram, with the same speed of the hd 5400 RPM. > > So which of them will buildworld, and ports from source faster? both > of them will use AC not on battery when do these stuff. I doubt that you will notice any big difference. While the AMD64 port is quite nicely tested and very swift by now, the optimizations towards Intel aren't bad either - even though this isn't true 64Bit processor. In this case the HD will probably be the bottle-neck, not being able to read and write the data quick enough to cause 100% CPU load. You would have to 'make -j 4' at least to get anywhere near 100% load (I even have to do that for 2 UltraSPARC II CPUs with 450MHz). And that really causes load on a hard drive. Just my 2 cents... Chris